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Ubuntu Security NoticesUSN-8732-1

USN-8732-1: Minetest vulnerability

Severity not listed 0 CVEs Published Sep 7, 2026 at 10:31 AM UTC

Summary

It was discovered that Minetest did not properly sanitize the Lua sandbox environment when using LuaJIT. A malicious mod could escape the sandbox to execute arbitrary code and gain full file system access on the server. An attacker could use this issue to compromise the server.

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